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S. Africa’s new research guidelines not a green light for heritable human genome editing
1 month ago

S. Africa’s new research guidelines not a green light for heritable human genome editing

Raw Story  

The recently updated South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines have been a recent cause of concern, with some researchers and bioethicists interpreting them as allowing what’s known as heritable human genome editing. Rather than allowing heritable human genome editing, the guidelines acknowledge the reality that South African law already allows human genome editing. That this was the purpose is …

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Dengue, Nipah and Ebola: Viruses by any other name – why scientists are renaming deadly diseases
6 months, 1 week ago

Dengue, Nipah and Ebola: Viruses by any other name – why scientists are renaming deadly diseases

BBC  

Dengue, Nipah and Ebola: Viruses by any other name – why scientists are renaming deadly diseases Getty Images Viruses have traditionally been named after the places or animals they have been first discovered in. The exact origin of the name dengue is a little uncertain, but it is related to the symptoms There are currently 14,690 known species of virus …

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Radical CAR-T cancer therapy’s risk of causing cancer is small
6 months, 1 week ago

Radical CAR-T cancer therapy’s risk of causing cancer is small

The Hindu  

In the last few decades, scientists have finally learned to harness the immune system to successfully treat cancer. Car-T therapy, short for “chimeric antigen receptor T-cell”, is a cutting-edge treatment that reprogrammes a patient’s immune cells to fight their cancer. Initially, the FDA mentioned that it had observed 20 cases where patients developed new immune-cell cancers, such as lymphomas or …

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Trauma seems to be passed down genetically — but experts still aren't sure what that means
1 year, 1 month ago

Trauma seems to be passed down genetically — but experts still aren't sure what that means

Salon  

Trauma is an experience so harrowing that it can alter our gene expression — and in some cases, these changes can be passed down to future generations. "It is proposed that intergenerational trauma can lead to cellular changes that alter the expression of genetic material, which over time become encoded." "We know that trauma can directly and indirectly affect across …

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People of African ancestry are poorly represented in genetic studies. This effort will change that
1 year, 2 months ago

People of African ancestry are poorly represented in genetic studies. This effort will change that

LA Times  

Output from a DNA sequencer at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Scientists are setting out to collect genetic material from 500,000 people of African ancestry to create what they believe will be the world’s largest database of genomic information from the population. The hope is to build a new “reference genome” — a template to compare to full sets …

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How genome sequences tracked down an ancient disease
1 year, 7 months ago

How genome sequences tracked down an ancient disease

The Hindu  

This article is part of a fortnightly column exploring contemporary concepts and issues in genetics. The ‘black death’, or the Great Plague, of the 14th century, was one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. The evidence also suggests that plague outbreaks were possibly common in Asia and Europe as early as the Late Neolithic-Early Bronze Age, as implied by …

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Should 'three-person babies' have the right to know their donors?
1 year, 7 months ago

Should 'three-person babies' have the right to know their donors?

BBC  

Should 'three-person babies' have the right to know their donors? He argues that children conceived via mitochondrial donation should have the right to find out the donor's identity, as they do in the UK in the case of sperm and egg donation. "As 50% of the children's genes were from an egg donor, whereas only mitochondrial DNA comes from the …

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WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid\'s origins
1 year, 9 months ago

WHO calls on China to be transparent in sharing data to determine Covid\'s origins

Deccan Chronicle  

United Nations/Geneva: The WHO has criticised China for withholding data related to samples taken at a market in Wuhan in 2020 that could have provided vital information about the Covid-19 pandemic's origins, calling on Beijing to be transparent and to share results of investigations it conducts. “The data, from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, relates to samples …

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Ancient viruses gave us a gene called "Arc" — and it may explain consciousness, scientists say
2 years, 1 month ago

Ancient viruses gave us a gene called "Arc" — and it may explain consciousness, scientists say

Salon  

What does it mean to exist? "We think the Arc gene evolved from an ancient retrotransposon that inserted itself into the germline of an ancestor around 400 million years ago in the first land-based vertebrates." "Studies from my lab and others have shown that Arc is important for turning experiences into long-lasting changes in the brain," Shepherd pointed out. "There …

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THIS smartphone based test can accurately detect COVID-19 in 20 minutes
2 years, 11 months ago

THIS smartphone based test can accurately detect COVID-19 in 20 minutes

India TV News  

Highlights The Harmony COVID-19 test detects genetic material from the SARS-CoV-2 virus The Harmony kit can provide results in less than 20 minutes for some samples A smartphone is used to operate the detector and read the results, the researchers said Researchers in the US have developed a low-cost smartphone-based diagnostic tool for COVID-19 that combines the speed of over-the-counter …

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Omicron variant cases identified in at least 12 states but Delta still dominates
3 years, 1 month ago

Omicron variant cases identified in at least 12 states but Delta still dominates

CNN  

CNN — Whileat least 12 states have identified cases of the Omicron coronavairus variant, US health officials remain concerned about the Delta version that accounts for practically all new infections. “And those are very likely to work against the Omicron variant.” Omicron may be more transmissible than Delta The first confirmed Omicron case in the US was identified in California …

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Far from evil, viruses have driven — and even helped — human evolution
3 years, 1 month ago

Far from evil, viruses have driven — and even helped — human evolution

Salon  

The word "virus" has largely negative connotations. Indeed, the history of life and the history of viruses are deeply intertwined, such that viruses have helped many animals along their path in the tree of life — including humans. Occasionally, viruses do leave something behind — in fact, a whole lot of something behind — in the form of additional genetic …

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CSL may manufacture mRNA and AstraZeneca vaccines that protect against new COVID-19 variants
3 years, 10 months ago

CSL may manufacture mRNA and AstraZeneca vaccines that protect against new COVID-19 variants

ABC  

Australia now has a second COVID-19 vaccine approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration 9TGA). How the AstraZeneca vaccine works The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is a viral vector vaccine It enlists the help of a harmless virus, in this case a chimpanzee adenovirus ChAdOx1, to deliver a payload of genetic material into our cells The genetic material is in a ring …

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Pfizer announces $1.95 billion deal to produce 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by year-end
4 years, 5 months ago

Pfizer announces $1.95 billion deal to produce 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by year-end

Firstpost  

Pfizer said that large-scale safety and efficacy trials were to begin this month, with a regulatory review set for as early as October, although nothing was guaranteed. Washington: As nations around the world race to lock up coronavirus vaccines even before they are ready, the Donald Trump administration on Wednesday made investments yet, announcing a nearly $2 billion contract with …

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Britain's £130 million plan to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine
4 years, 7 months ago

Britain's £130 million plan to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine

Daily Mail  

Britain will get first access to a coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca poised to make 30 million for the UK by September - if it works. Business Secretary Alok Sharma today announced a deal between Oxford University and AstraZeneca which could see millions of vaccines available in the UK by September The latest official …

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He signed up for a trial of a vaccine that’s never been used in humans. Here’s why.
4 years, 8 months ago

He signed up for a trial of a vaccine that’s never been used in humans. Here’s why.

CNN  

CNN — Despite all his medical knowledge, 31-year-old medical student and Ph. Why don’t we just make the vaccines and give them to people?’ Well the world has learned many lessons in the mass use of vaccines and there’s only one thing more dangerous than a bad virus, and that’s a bad vaccine,” Ryan said. The earliest vaccines, such as …

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Can you kill coronavirus with UV light?
4 years, 9 months ago

Can you kill coronavirus with UV light?

BBC  

Can you kill coronavirus with UV light? Getty Images There’s only one type of UV that can reliably inactivate Covid-19 – and it’s extremely dangerous. “We had an enquiry from a private individual about our equipment, saying ‘Well, why can't we just get one of your UV lights and put it up on the exit to the supermarket – people …

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